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small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc news night." >> thousands were said to have been killed under his watch in the general sid side in bosnia in the 1990's. the arrested ratko mladic. >> i take this personally. this man is a war criminal and it's taken a long time to get him. >> ever been to a bullfight? we take you to one of the last ever. plus, why is it so hard to find a wife in beijing? >> and now i'm going to leave you to your date.

hello. his survivors and relatives of the dead have waited 16 long years for the capture of the baas known general ratko mladic, who stands trial in the hague, accused of the massacre of about 8,000 muslim boys and men. he was the alleged act tect to have four-year siege at sarajevo. mladic was arrested by security force this is week after apparently living for several years in the same prosperous village. this is the same week that keith ashen was in bell grad to discuss his desire to join the e.u. here's peter marshall. >> this is ratko mladic under arrest charged with genocide. this is ratko mladic in his pomp, as commander of the serb army. these are his words, his voice,

ordering troops during the siege of the city of sarajevo. [tape playing] [bombing] >> 12,000 civilians were to die in sarajevo. some were killed in the incessant shelling. others were hit by snipers who picked them off as they ran for shelter. it went on for four years. but it's mladic's conduct, his personal involvement in a northern mining town which really sets him apart. he'd reassured the muslim population they'd come to no

harm. he handed the children sweets. what happened next has led to mladic -- mladic being cited as the worst war criminal since the holocaust. after 16 years as a fugitive, he's finally been caught. >> on behalf of the republic of serbia i announce that today we arrested ratko mladic. >> 1995. this is ethic cleansing. it's said mladic ordered men and boys to be separated from their families. the cameramen will be part of the evidence. >> as i got there someone grabbed me by the shoulder and said, you, old man, go up to the end of the road. you can't leave now. i said to him, you can't separate me from my family. how will i ever find them again? he said don't talk back. go to the left. >> after being led away, some had to endure the terror of mock

executions. [gunfire] >> and then, joke over, they were shot dead. seven and a half,000 of them. miraculously, some survived. >> the serbs started shooting at us with everything they had, inside and outside the wear house. people were dropping all over the place. as i was lying still on the floor, the right side of my body became soaked in other people's blood. the wounded were killed. >> you say there are many babies killed in the village? >> colonel bob stewart was the commander of u.n. forces in bosnia. he says mladic's capture is long

overdue. >> british soldiers went in this april 1993. my interpreter, who was there, was talking to a woman and there was shell fire. the woman started screaming and the interpreter suddenly felt something warm. to his horror he discovered the warmth was the baby's blood and the baby had lost its head. i take this personally. this man is a war criminal and it's taken a long time to get him. >> for the first five years, mladic lived openly free. new mexico 2002 mladic was still an official member of the serb military. he drew his army pension for a fullecade. mladic was viewed by many nationalists as a great hero, protected by key politicians and intelligence figures. he was finally arrested in this house in northern serbia. so only now will the man held

responsible for the deaths of thousands face justice. why has it taken so long? last month ratko mladic's wife went on trial in belgrade, accused of possessioning weapons she said were his and his were dead. few believed that. only days ago the chief prosecutor of war crimes accused officials of not doing enough to catch watt ratko mladic. serbia's hopes of joining the e.u. were doomed. now that changes. >> his capture closes a bloody chapter. >> he was a racist, a black guard, a bully. he was also intelligent and you must never estimate his intelligence. >> what was he like to deal with? >> occasionally i spoke to him as a real person. his daughter had just committed standards and i had a proper

serious conversation. but mostly you were dealing with a hard drinking, hard language, racist comments. a man who was oblivious, ignored international pressure and he was right to because it wasn't serious. >> once ratko mladic goes to the hague, he's expected to remain defiant. the former serb political leader and mladic's mentor is still on trial three years after his arrest. he says they'll now work together to bring out what he calls the truth. >> the origins of bullfighting in spain can be traced back to seventh century a.d. but for fans in pursuit, a long journey is approaching the end of the road. ernest hemmingway termed out an art form but it will be outlawed later this year in catalonia.

animal rights afraids call ate victory. -- called it a victory. steve is there. >> bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. the american novelist ernest hemmingway traveled to spain in the 1920's and 1930's and watched bull fights. he wrote them up in his famous account "death in the afternoon." he was a fan but he was honest about what he saw. >> i suppose the whole bullfight is indefenseable and i should

not try to defend it now, only to tell honestly the things i have found true about it. >> however squeamishly you approach the pages of hemmingway, if at all, his book and bullfighting itself seem to say something about spanishness, somethinof the centuries, but the spain hemmingway documented is disappearing, it seems, as well the protests in city centers, this summer, the 50th anniversary of hemmingway's death sees the last-ever summer of bullfighting in barcelona. to some it's a long overdue end to a barbaric practice. but others see it as a political act, at catalonia waving a red flag at the rest of spain and its cultural heritage and that includes the fiesta of bulls. 76-year-old former matador

enrique is a grizzed and gored veteran of the ring. >> really, it's something that shakes me. this bullring has been the best in the world. from that height it seems we'll no longer be able to see the bulls in barcelona. >> but campaigners who lobbied catalan m.p.'s to abolish bullfighting claim it's simply a reaction to cruelty to animals. >> i know the supporters -- but i think they don't want it because bullfighting is cruel. because sometimes they say bullfighting is not cruel. >> in a boutique barcelona hotel where you or someone you know

has almost certainly stayed on a city break, damien is being dressed in the bull fighter's so-called suit of life. he's 19, painfully slight and about to face a bull weighing just over a ton. >> these moments are difficult because you're an hour from playing with your life and also beautiful, because whenever you dress up in the lights it's a beautiful feeling. >> la monumental, the last bullring in barcelona. it's early in the season, the last season here, and none of the superstars of the spanish circuit are on the biffle. all the same, a mere fifth of the seats a occupied -- are

occupied. this was once a staple of spanish tv. now bull fights are only shown on a satellite channel. another sign of the times, perhaps. the crowd offers some encouragement to damien, the novice and at least he survives his afternoon, which is more that can be said for the bull. rosa hill is the widow of the last man to die in the bullring in barcelona. his name was jose falcon and he was killed back in 1974. >> listen to me. i think i love you. >> he said that? >> yeah. >> the restaurant used to be a kind of canteen for bull fighters on the tour, but it's quieter these days, she says. >> it's the beginning of the finish bullfighting all over the world. our kids in the schools, they

are going out with different attitudes with animals, with the priests -- >> you don't mind if it finishes, maybe? >> no, i think that will be the most normal, because life is like that. >> at his splendid medieval palace in barcelona, the president of catalonia is proud of his government's independent spirit but insists this has nothing to do with the bullfight ban. >> it's not related to the spanish issue because don't forget that the bullfighting tradition is very old in catalonia. >> isn't that all the more reason for keeping it? why upset those people, perhaps a minority, who are in favor of it? >> because i would say that the society is -- has a certain

evolution. a cultural evolution, and at the beginning to have 21st century, some rights are more respected than some decades ago. even rights for the animals. >> this shopping mall in barcelona has been converted by our own richard rogers from a 15,000 seat bullring. hemmingway must be spinning like a matador in a tight spot. replacing the arena with sweet-smelling boutiques is adding girly insult to injury. the fans claim catalonia will no longer be truly spanish after the last bullfight here this summer. but others in barcelona say it's part of a change that the modern spain requires. >> steve smith there. china has bounced back from the

economic mess left by chairman mao to become the superpower in waiting for the 21st century. but behind the wealth being created by the world's fastest growing economy, there remain profound social strains. because more female fetuses have been and continue to be aborted than male ones, there's a serious imbalance between the number of marriageable men and women in china. justin tries his hand at match making. ♪ >> meet chen. and meet yang. news night is playing cupid in china. >> and now i'm going to leave you to your date. >> why? because although there are

hundreds of millions of young people to choose from in china's booming cities, many chinese say it's not easy to find someone they want to marry. so how hard is it to find a good husband? what'd she say? difficult, why? is it so easy to find a boyfriend, why is it so hard to find a husband? >> love is between two people but marriage is between two families. >> girls are very picky. they only choose the best man. >> if i haven't found anyone when i get to 30, my thoughts are to open up the european and american markets. >> and they're not alone. there are quite a few single people in china. i've come to the heart of china's dating industry to one of the world's largest match making agencies.

byher.com is china's biggest dating website. it's got 30 million months. 20,000 new members sign up every day. >> we got one million users in the first three months. it's very competitive so you have to work hard. you don't have enough time for dating. >> that competition is getting ever more intense, thanks to china's one-child policy and the unique demographics it is creating. >> experts estimate that in 20 years' time in china there will be 40 to 50 million young men who can't find a wife and this will become a very serious social problem. >> that's not the end of the problems for single chinese men. >> i've come here to a part right in the center of beijing

and over here is what looks like an open air market and in a sense that's exactly what it is. this is a kind of open air marriage bureau. people put up signs advertising their sons and daughters hoping somewhere in the crowd is a match for them, a potential wife or a potential husband. many of these parents are so worried that their children won't find someone that they've come here without telling him. as the signs show, their search is pragmatic. male, born 1983, owns own apartment. seeks open-hearted female. >> female. born in the year of the goat. seeks male under 36. must own apartment. >> should he have a flat? should he have a car? >> a car doesn't matter but a

home is essential. >> some people here, the first thing they ask you if -- is if you're providing a flat and a car before they even ask you about your child. that makes me feel unhappy in my heart and uncomfortable. you spend your life with a person, not a house or a car. >> would it be ok if the man was renting a flat rather than owned a flat? >> that just doesn't feel very reliable. >> and young chinese people seem to have inherited their parents' priorities. the fact off good job, you own your own home. are these important things when you're looking for a wife? >> important. incredibly important. >> why are they so important, do you think? >> because to have a happy family, a man needs to take responsibility for the basic economics of the home.

>> by tradition, men would inherit land or the family home in the countryside but that won't cut it anymore. china is undergoing the most rapid urbanization in the history of humanity, and now, potential husbands need to provide a home in the city. meet chris wu. he's trying to help ease the huge pressures chinese men are under. he runs courses in the art of romae. >> having your own house is deeply rooted into the minds of the people. and it's not something that one generations -- generation or two generations can change. >> but in western society, men

and women would buy a plot together and set up home together. why can't they do that in china? >> i think in china when you get into a marriage, most of the time that's something that a guy has to offer. >> beijing and other chinese cities are so exciting. but it's very hard for men, obviously. >> yeah, definitely. it's really scary. >> indeed. soaring property prices have driven some men underground. i've come to a place which just how extreme the beijing property market has become. just take a look at this. this place is the cellar of a large apartment building and look at this. come down here. down here off this corridor there's a network of tunnels with over 100 people living down here. thanks for inviting me here.

thank you. yang rents a tiny room down here because he knows that without his own apartment he's unlikely to find love. oh, look at that. oh, thank you. do you think you could ever buy a place here in beijing? >> i think through my own hard works, i will. >> do you think lots of young people are doing what you're doing? living somewhere like this for the future? >> yes, for future plans. and that's why dating in china is so important for the world economy. in the past china's growth that be driven by exports. now chinese leaders say they want to rely more on consumer demand. that would be more -- better for world trade.

but it means having chinese men like yang saving less and spending more. and they're note going to do that unless they find a wife. which is why "news night" has entered the dating game. we want to see if one woman can be persuaded the property does not have to be the basis for a good relationship. but first, yang gets some advice if our love coach. >> so i'll leave you two guys together. >> sure, thanks. >> if i'm really attracted to a girl and i really like her but she's out of my league, what do i do with that feeling and should i tell her? >> you need to get used to

attraction. you need to get practice talking to as many beautiful women as you can. so that when you meet one you really like, you feel comfortable and can express yourself. ♪ >> what kind of boyfriend are you looking for? >> well, i have certain criteria but when i actually meet someone it really depends on who they are and not my criteria. so have you had a girlfriend recently? >> yes. we have broken up.

>> so how did they get on? so will you getting her number? would you like to see her again? >> yes, of course i will. that was a successful date. brilliant. >> i've never met someone with such a different background to strange because i felt really comfortable on this date and he seemed like a really nice guy. >> so only time will tell whether "news night"'s adventure into chinese dating will lead to a marriage. whether i will to buy myself a new hat. but this is just one date. traditions of love and family remain very strong.

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